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Godaddy's official position on SOPA - Just Posted

116 pointsby damonpaceover 13 years ago
This was just posted today.

18 comments

daviduover 13 years ago
Most of this is not a new posting -- just the material at the top.<p>She is using dangerous language -- talking about children, and about counterfeit goods which harm lives.<p>She makes it seem as if one must be for SOPA if they want to be against harming children or counterfeit goods. But that's not a logical conclusion. You can be for helping children and against SOPA. In fact, I'd imagine that would describe just about everyone who opposes SOPA.<p>SOPA is far reaching. SOPA is terrible and needs to be stopped. I'm all for something that stops the harm of children and the spread of counterfeit goods, but that's not what the SOPA debate is actually about. So let's focus on SOPA and not get misdirected by Ms. Jones.
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Budover 13 years ago
Hard to even count the ways in which this statement is wrong.<p>Also, GoDaddy needs to hire an editor who can spell "complementary".<p>Maybe their editors are all too busy staring blankly at breasts, like in their ads.
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secretwhistleover 13 years ago
I love it when entities take a controversial position and, despite having the option to actually hear directly from the people its affecting, go ahead and just lock down the comment section.
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azthover 13 years ago
<p><pre><code> Go Daddy has a full time presence in Washington D.C. and takes an active role in policy development that impacts the Internet, particularly issues having to do with children. </code></pre> OMG won't you think of the children?!
ryandvmover 13 years ago
So... what does Go Daddy have to gain from SOPA? Is there really that much money to be made in facilitating this ham fisted ban hammer?
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ohashiover 13 years ago
This is coming from a company that has no problem pulling your website without any legal reason (see seclists.org).
andrewflnrover 13 years ago
&#62; The question should be how, not whether, we develop a &#62; notice and takedown regime in a responsible and responsive way.<p>I agree. But SOPA is not the answer. Apparently this author cannot conceive of a better alternative.
breckinlogginsover 13 years ago
GoDaddy's position doesn't strike me as malicious, but rather hopelessly naive. "We can't imagine the powers in this bill being abused" seems to be their position.
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devmachover 13 years ago
&#62; Go Daddy is the world’s largest domain name registrar with more than 50 million domain names under management.<p>Every time when i read some company's "we are f.ing big you s.ckers" shit, i hate them a lot... Yes you are a big company because of us, the individuals. If you forget it, you have to lose.
cowmixtooover 13 years ago
GoDaddy supports the bill because they love taking a contrary positions on an given issue. They see most of the industry taking X position on SOPA and so they take Y position. Corporate wise, they just seem to get off on it.
blrgeekover 13 years ago
tl;dr. Somebody please think of the children!
koenigdavidmjover 13 years ago
I guess a company /can/ survive with the amount of bad PR that GoDaddy gets.
fedorabbitover 13 years ago
Let's say are rid of foreign porn. Are our Children safe now?! What about American porn sites? *Oh right, we are gonna make another bill fixing that! I swear US is more and more like China these days.
iterationxover 13 years ago
If the singularity happens and I become immortal, I will boycott Godaddy until the heat death of the universe.
muyuuover 13 years ago
Complimentary =&#62; complementary
mikehowardover 13 years ago
It's a FUD piece. Says nothing.
georgieporgieover 13 years ago
There was way too much self promotion ("look how I work to stop bad pharmaceutical resellers and protect children in some vague manner) and not enough getting-to-the-point.
rsanchez1over 13 years ago
If balancing the free flow of information means restricting it, no thanks.